water water everywhere and a city left to sink

not a woe commentary. but rather a wondering.

i always wonder what will come of such things - we lose new orleans and what then? we have such an infastructure, such a groove we are stuck in, such a way of things. what will change? things got so much worse after two buildings got planes stuck in them. no good came of that - it didn't seem we got any wiser. maybe a momentary good, but not the radical change that could have resurrected some powerful new age in the united states spirit. new orleans. dirty, sticky, ill-reputed, beer and beads and breasts. and black. had texas or washington, dc caught on fire, would we have moved the ocean to keep their families safe? the rich got the gas and got away. the poor went belly-up, and are now floating by their houses, face down.
will such a large population relocated be angry? will it materialize into change? uprising? will we shrug again?
is venice scared?
is it really global warming? if it is, who even cares?

nothing will change. look at me type. nothing will change. i have no car to care for gas...but can i afford heat this maine winter? i wouldn't mind some wind turbines off my coast so as not to sleep in my coat. i see the beautifully cropped shots of oil rigs pulled inland and parked against new orleans bridges. bayou billions up the creek.

i'm not extraordinarily political. but i'm a good naturalist. almost a darwinist. transcendentalist for sure. but i didn't want all this matrix this time and place came built into to. sure, the fact that i'm legally blind would have made my lifespan pretty short, but it doesn't change how i fear medicine and media. my discontent is my luxury, and vice versa.

anyway, what? disaster, right. does it, this day and age, make any kind of real difference? will a city lost be a morale gained?

can i learn to build an igloo and train some husky dogs?

note: having my very first comment be a commercial sucked.